Core Engineer (Front-End / Full Stack) | Dubai- Blockchain Innovation Lab

You will harness your expertise in React and TypeScript to develop innovative, scalable, and high performance user interfaces for the web3 lab in a core engineering front-end role. You can expect to take charge of the entire product development lifecycle, collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements and make strategic decisions that drive the success of products.

This opportunity is perfect for a results-oriented engineer who is passionate about their craft, excels in problem solving, and has a proven track record of delivering high quality front-end applications on time and efficiently. Your leadership and communication skills will play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and fearless environment within the engineering team. This role is a huge greenfield opportunity for a commercially minded engineer who's passionate about the value they can bring to blockchain projects with cutting edge front-end development.

My client is a blockchain innovation lab who are building a crypto exchange. Driven by a fearless mindset, they stand ready to apply their skills to the emerging blockchain space and solve the complex challenges of tomorrow and beyond. Having secured huge amounts of funding, they are ready to build and empower the community as the intersection of talent and innovation, to deliver the best in modern engineering for a smarter tomorrow.

• Develop and maintain high-quality, performant, and scalable front-end applications using React and TypeScript.
• Take pride in generating code that is modular, well-documented, and follows best practices, coding standards, and design patterns.
• Take ownership of front-end products, driving its development from inception to completion, and making critical decisions that impact the product's success.
• Gather and prioritise requirements from all stakeholders, define user stories, and provide accurate estimates.
• Work closely with the back-end development team to integrate front-end code with APIs and other services.
• Continuously improve and optimise the user experience, performance, and accessibility of applications.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging front-end technologies and industry trends, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate them into the products.
• Operate as part of a dedicated engineering team, rapidly iterating development of its collection of proprietary software systems.
• Manage and execute projects from start to finish including requirements building, project management, build and deployment.

• At least 3 years of experience in developing complex front-end applications using React and TypeScript.
• Experience writing relational database queries to support front-end applications.
• Drive and initiative to make the front-end products you create, world class.
• Strong understanding of front-end architecture, design patterns, and development best practices.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to gather and prioritise requirements from stakeholders effectively.
• Experience with version control systems (Git), automated testing frameworks, and continuous integration and deployment CI/CD tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
• Experience working in a fast paced, high growth environment.

• Experience in React Native / mobile development.
• Experience in design principles, including knowledge of UI/UX best practices and design tools (Sketch, Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.).
• Experience in back-end API development using JavaScript and/or Python.
• Experience working in the blockchain or cryptocurrency industry.
• Experience with quantitative trading or financial technology.
• Experience working in an R&D environment.

• Strong academics in Computer Science or Software Engineering from a top-tier university.

If this sounds like you or you'd like to know more, please get in touch:

ryan.quinn@oxfordknight.co.uk
linkedin.com/in/ryan-quinn-6782211a8/